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  • Accellion Obtains FedRAMP Certification for Cloud-Based Content Collaboration Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accellion Obtains FedRAMP Certification for Cloud-Based Content Collaboration Tool

    Accellion has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program  certification to offer a cloud-based content collaboration system to federal agencies. The FedRAMP moderate-impact level authorization seeks to facilitate the deployment of Accellion’s kiteworks content collaboration tool on Amazon Web Services’ Cloud platform to help government employees access and transmit sensitive data files, Accellion said Monday. “Earning […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Transfers 16th Virginia-Class Submarine for Final Testing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Transfers 16th Virginia-Class Submarine for Final Testing

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has launched the U.S. Navy‘s future Indiana submarine into James River and transferred the watercraft from a construction facility to a pier managed by the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division in preparation for final crew certification, outfitting and testing. Indiana, dubbed as SSN 789, will represent the 16th Virginia-class submarine of the Navy and the eighth unit Newport […] More

  • Lockheed Gets $59M Air Force KC-130J Trainer Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets $59M Air Force KC-130J Trainer Contract Modification

    Lockheed Martin has received a $59 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force for the delivery of four customized KC-130J fuselage trainers. The Defense Department said Friday that Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems unit will modify C-130 airframe trainer systems to replicate the appearance, functions and performance of the KC-130J aircraft. DoD noted that modified trainers will support load […] More

  • Labor Dept Seeks Info on Cloud Hosting Services Sources for EBSA Public Disclosure System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Labor Dept Seeks Info on Cloud Hosting Services Sources for EBSA Public Disclosure System

    The Labor Department has sought information on potential contractors that can provide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-certified cloud hosting services for the Employee Benefits and Security Administration’s public disclosure platform. DOL said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday the ERISA Public Disclosure System is a database application that contains 12 terabytes of data that […] More

  • Raytheon Unit to Produce 'Friend or Foe' ID Crypto Tech for Air Force, Intl Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Unit to Produce ‘Friend or Foe’ ID Crypto Tech for Air Force, Intl Customers

    A business unit of Raytheon has landed a $42.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide cryptographic applique for friend-or-foe identification systems to the U.S. Air Force and multiple foreign military sales customers. The Defense Department said Friday the sole-source contract covers the production of  KIV-77 Mode 4/5 units along with data, remote form factor and spare parts. Raytheon’s space and […] More

  • Navy Selects BAE, General Dynamics, MES for Submarine Trainer Production, Installation IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Selects BAE, General Dynamics, MES for Submarine Trainer Production, Installation IDIQ

    The U.S. Navy has awarded three companies positions on a potential five-year, $42.6 million contract to provide support services for the military branch’s Submarine Multi-Mission Team Trainer systems. BAE Systems‘ technology solutions and services business, General Dynamics‘ mission systems segment  and services business and MES‘ simulation and training unit will compete for hardware design, fabrication, logistics and installation task orders under […] More

  • Honeywell to Establish APAC Cyber Innovation Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell to Establish APAC Cyber Innovation Hub

    Honeywell‘s process solutions business plans to open a facility in Singapore by the end of 2017 to provide managed cybersecurity services intended to help Asia-Pacific customers manage security posture and avoid breaches. The company said Thursday its cybersecurity center of excellence for the APAC region will feature a research-and-development laboratory, a security operations center and a training facility. The lab will […] More

  • CTC, SAIC Vet Michael Genseal Joins TechFlow as Energy Solutions Business Senior Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC, SAIC Vet Michael Genseal Joins TechFlow as Energy Solutions Business Senior Director

    Michael Genseal, a former executive director at Concurrent Technologies Corp. and vice president at Science Applications International Corp., has been named senior director of the energy solutions business at technology and professional services provider TechFlow. The 35-year energy business development and management veteran will be responsible for overseeing the unit’s business activities and functions in his new position, TechFlow said Monday. […] More

  • SSL’s Rob Zitz: MDA Aims to Ramp Up Earth Imagery, Analysis Support to Intell Agencies Via DigitalGlobe Merger - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL’s Rob Zitz: MDA Aims to Ramp Up Earth Imagery, Analysis Support to Intell Agencies Via DigitalGlobe Merger

    Rob Zitz, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Space Systems Loral’s government systems business, has said SSL’s parent company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates aims to provide Earth imagery and analysis services to U.S. intelligence and defense agencies through its pending merger with DigitalGlobe, Space News reported Thursday. MDA agreed to buy DigitalGlobe through an estimated $3.6 billion […] More

  • TSA OKs Optosecurity-Vanderlande Integrated Screening Platform for Airport Deployment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TSA OKs Optosecurity-Vanderlande Integrated Screening Platform for Airport Deployment

    The Transportation Security Administration has approved an automated screening lane system from Vanderlande and Optosecurity for operational readiness tests at category-X airports in the U.S. The ASL system that combines Optosecurity’s eVelocity platform with Vanderlande’s SCANNOJET offering passed pre-approval assessments by the TSA’s innovation task force, Optosecurity said Thursday. “We look forward to providing a new ASL option to U.S. airports and airline carriers,” […] More

  • Mitre Report Offers Strategies to Build Cyber Info-Sharing Ecosystem - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Report Offers Strategies to Build Cyber Info-Sharing Ecosystem

    Mitre has published a new report that includes multiple strategies on how public and private organizations can establish a national ecosystem to share unclassified cyber information. Bruce Bakis and Edward Wang, respectively a manager and a thought leader at Mitre, wrote in a joint article published Wednesday the “Building a National Cyber Information-Sharing Ecosystem” report contains 11 recommendations […] More